What can contemporary geographical research learn from Aadel Brun Tschudi? As a pioneer of development geography, Tschudi emphasised efficiency, equity and the responsibility of geographers to be active in society. While her contributions to development geography were made in the context of nation-building efforts in the mid–late 20th century, the globalising process of the early 21st century raise similar concerns for identity, emergent hierarchies of power and socio-environmental transformation. Using Tschudi’s cardinal principles of equity and efficiency, the paper identifies four action arenas and exemplifies these through interventions aimed at reducing risk and addressing unmet development challenges: (1) high efficiency, low equity (private sector led), (2) low efficiency, low equity (humanitarian sector led), (3) low efficiency, high equity (spontaneous local action), and (4) high efficiency, high equity (collaborative action). The analysis draws out the different ways in which the aspirations and policy communities that own the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 are interacting now and how far these interactions are able to deliver efficiency and equity for the poor in low- and middle-income countries, which is Tschudi’s primary concern.

当代地理研究可以从Aadel Brun Tschudi学到什么？作为发展地理学的先驱，Tschudi强调了效率，公平性以及地理学家在社会中活跃的责任。尽管她在20世纪中叶建立国家的努力中为发展地理做出了贡献，但21世纪初的全球化进程也引起了人们对身份认同，新兴的权力等级和社会环境转型的关注。运用Tschudi的公平与效率的基本原则，本文确定了四个行动领域，并通过旨在降低风险和应对未解决的发展挑战的干预措施加以举例说明：（1）高效率，低股权（由私营部门主导），（2）低平等（以人道主义部门为主导），（3）低效率，高公平（自发的本地行动），以及（4）高效率，高公平（协作的行动）。该分析指出了拥有联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）和《 2015-2030年仙台减少灾害风险框架》的愿望和政策社区之间的不同互动方式，以及这些互动能够在多大程度上提高效率中低收入国家的穷人的平等和公平，这是Tschudi的主要关注点。